[R-G] Song about Gaza from Martyn Joseph

[Sid Shniad]

Five Sisters (mp3 download of the song available at: http://www.martynjoseph.com/listen.html ) 

  
This is not the place for vengeance 
Not a place for battle cries 
This is no rally it’s a funeral 
For five sisters lives 

Every day I watched them growing 
In the night I watched them breathe 
But it only takes a second 
Five sisters gone 

We walk we breathe we are not animals 
Though you treat us like we are 
I never fired a rocket sir at anyone 
But you may have pushed too far 

The propaganda of the leaders 
Making speeches heads held high 
I want them standing by this graveside 
Where five sisters lie 

Every day… 

Take away a mans water 
Build upon his land 
Raise a mighty wall around him 
What is it you don’t understand? 

Make his children walk in squalor 
With only night stars for a view 
Then the rage within that helplessness 
One day comes back at you 

But this is not the place for vengeance 
Not a place for battle cries 
This is no rally it’s a funeral 
For five sisters lives 

Every day… 

One day I’ll buy a rocket 
And I will aim it at the sky 
Celebrate in the light of a thousand colours 
I pray, peace and justice in our time 

For five sisters 

Too late for my five daughters 

Tahir, Ikram, Samar, Dina and Jawaher Balousha